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Led by Alle Butler, a reading course student supervised by Dr. Ferro, the main findings from the REACH study were published in an article entitled, “Mental disorder in children with physical conditions: a pilot study” in BMJ Open. Of the 50 children enrolled in the study, the prevalence of multimorbidity was 58% at baseline and […]

Working with investigators from the Extremely Low Birth Weight Cohort at McMaster University, two papers were recently published in Development and Psychopathology. The first, entitled, “Early developmental influences on self-esteem trajectories from adolescence through adulthood: impact of birth weight and motor skills” found that early motor skill development may exert differential effects on self-esteem, depending […]

A paper by Duncan et al. entitled, “Psychometric evaluation of the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview for Children and Adolescents (MINI-KID)” was recently published in Psychological Assessment. Using both a population and clinical sample of children and youth, the psychometric properties of the MINI-KID were found to be robust. These findings, in addition to the brevity […]